{"id":1890,"date":"2020-04-27T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:11:44","slug":"review-going-dark-the-secret-social-lives-of-extremists-by-julia-ebner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-going-dark-the-secret-social-lives-of-extremists-by-julia-ebner\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists, by Julia Ebner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1943, the best-selling book <em>Under Cover<\/em> by John Roy Carlson described the pro-Axis groups that thrived in the US before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  Carlson &#8212; whose real name was Arthur Derounian &#8212; joined many of the groups he investigated, and the book was illustrated with many photos of his membership cards in such groups.  It took America&#8217;s entry into the war to finally lead to a crackdown on a wide range of groups, of the largest of which was called the &#8220;America First Committee&#8221;.  (That name might set off some alarm bells.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight decades later, in a radically different world, once again pro-fascist, racist and anti-Semitic organisations are thriving, and not only in the US.  Julia Ebner has followed in Carlson&#8217;s footsteps, infiltrating both extreme rightist and Islamist groups, largely online.  At great personal risk, she has revealed how these groups operate and thrive, and the threat they pose to democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a well-written book that should serve as a wake-up call to governments and civil society, as it exposes the online roots of a hatred that has increasingly manifested itself in terrorist attacks across the Western world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1943, the best-selling book Under Cover by John Roy Carlson described the pro-Axis groups that thrived in the US before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Carlson &#8212; whose real name was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}